• Features

Scaling Up

Is bigger better? That’s a question many artists and architects are facing, as ever-expanding installations, multivenue exhibitions, vast architectural projects and outsize artworks grab the spotlight…

• By
  Ossian Ward
• Mar 26, 2012 3:23 pm

• Reviews

Postmodernism: Style and Subversion, 1970-1990

"Postmodernism": a garish pink-and-green neon of the title fizzes at the entrance to the V&A's exhibition, a valiant attempt to grapple with that slipperiest of eras. "Style and Subversion 1970–1990…

• By
  Ossian Ward
• Nov 30, 2011 5:38 pm

• Features

Tracey Emin: No Bedtime Story

Now on view in London, the first-ever museum retrospective for Britain's famous "bad girl" artist reveals a depth and vulnerability seldom evident in similar samplings of her work.

• By
  Ossian Ward
• May 27, 2011 11:32 am

• Features

Michael Huey: Out of the Past

Reproduction and lineage—issues that affect family identity as well as the meaning of images—haunt an American artist long resident in his ancestral Austria. 

• By
  Ossian Ward
• Jul 20, 2010 12:37 pm

• Reviews

The Turner Prize

The only shock of this annual barometer of British contemporary art was that there was no shock.

• By
  Ossian Ward
• Feb 23, 2009 2:57 pm